Open source network management comparison: General

by Jack Hughes on July 17, 2008

Table of contents for Open source network management comparison

  1. Open source network management comparison: Introduction
  2. Open source network management comparison: General
  3. Open source network management comparison: Platform
  4. Open source network management comparison: Support
Attribute / Project OpenNMS Nagios Zenoss Hyperic Zabbix
General
Licence GPL GPL GPL GPL GPL
First released 2000 1998 2006 2006 2001
Development languages Java C Python / Zope Java / C C / PHP
External dependencies RRDTool / JRobin Net-SNMP / RRDTool RRDTool SNMP4J Net-SNMP
Configuration XML files Text files Web based Web based Web based
Extensible X X X X X
User interface Web Web / WAP Web Web Web
Reporting X X X X X

Update 1: Added C to the Hyperic development languages

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{ 2 comments }

jeremy hogan July 18, 2008 at 2:30 PM

Hey Jack,

Thanks for including Hyperic in your breakdown. I don’t know if it’s worth mentioning, but Hyperic is actually written in Java and C (SIGAR is C), and we don’t have any external requirement for SNMP4J. It’s used by the SNMP plugins, but we include it in the package–not sure if that’s how you meant “external” or not.

Thanks again!
–jeremy

Jack Hughes July 18, 2008 at 2:39 PM

@Jeremy – you’re welcome … I will correct the omission on the implementation language ;)

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